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Seems like this issue is just a matter of different personal opinions. Personal opinions of those who have power to fix this prevail, by definition.
In my opinion, the "accidentally press the back button and lose form data" argument should carry very little weight for this issue. There are just too many prerequisites to trigger it:
1. One is filling out a poorly designed web form that does not save data
2. One makes a typo
3. One is not paying attention
4. One tries to correct the typo using the backspace button without focus
Q1: Out of all the browsing one does, what percentage of time does one spend filling out forms? What percentage of those forms don't save info?
Q2: Out of the above cases, how often does one make typos?
Q3: Out of the above cases, how often does one not pay attention?
Q4: Out of the above cases, how often does one try to correct the typo without first selecting the text field?
I fill out web forms often, but have never run into such a problem. 99.987654231% of the time I am just browsing, and the backspace button is a convenient shortcut to go back a page. I think the shortcut should be there by default. Those who don't want the feature, should disable it for themselves -- as opposed to punishing everybody for someone's inability to stay focused on a web form (pun intended).